Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one
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Open source developer. Wikidata, IPFS, Linux, Ethereum. /r/fuckcars enthusiast. I tend to boost funny stuff.
Joined May 2019
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Shoutout to @vincent for developing https://bird.makeup. Things are slow now because of the massive influx in users, but having any Twitter account’s tweets viewable within the fediverse is great. Bridging the gap until those accounts are posting directly here is awesome.
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Lesser known Apple Watch Workouts:
Staying Up Until Midnight 🥳
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Kdenlive fundraiser news: With only 3 days to go, we need one last push! We need just over 1,400 euros to reach our stretch goal of 20,000 euros.
All proceeds go to #funding development of new features and improving Kdenlive.
@condalmo That could work, thanks! If someone post again, it will break a test, but that looks good enough
Ok I have a weird request to help me build bird.makeup:
Do you know twitter accounts of dead people, ideally famous? They have to not be taken over by someone else too.
I'm using them for integration testing, and I only have kobebryant right now
Anyone working on a equivalent of Yo for the fediverse?
@smallsco Yeah, there is a memory leak somewhere... I'm hunting for it!
In the same vein, I'm thinking of giving priority to the accounts above, so that they are always posting to the fediverse in a timely fashion, at the expense of smaller account.
The main bottleneck I have right now is fetching tweets, but not posting them, so if you follow the accounts that are the most popular, it won't slow down things at all 👇
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Outside of professional athletes (the tails, maxima), age seems to be just noise.
Standard Extreme Value Theory: the extrema has a different distribution than the average. In competitions w/professional athletes we observe the maxima. In real life, noise around an average.
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Oh look, is that a catastrophic Twitter failure? How surprising and not at all the inevitable consequence of firing nearly everyone who knows how to keep the site up or even what all of the bits do.
@jay I would recommend having a whitelist at your reverse proxy that only allows for your mastodon instance's IP.
Also whitelist for accounts are probably going away eventually
@cautionwip @awilbert @wspd7pio No, it's because bird.makeup is very loaded at this moment. My goal with the optimizations I'm doing is that tweets are replicated within an hour, but we are more at like 4-5 hours behind right now
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@vincent
thy for giving us a simple bridge
It really enlightens my day to have @terriblemaps here!
So I spent the whole day optimizing bird.makeup and got about a 5x in performance. Things are starting to run better, seems we are iterating on all accounts within 4-5 hours right now. I have other ideas that will probably get another 3x that I want to implement tonight, so performance should be right on target.
Until more people sign up of course! 🙃
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Over many years, I have been gradually replacing all of the paragraphs in the Ship of Theseus Wikipedia article.
@christopher I mean they did fire everyone working on that! 😇
But seriously as long as people can see tweets without logging in I can make it work
- Github
- https://github.com/cloutier
Open source developer. Wikidata, IPFS, Linux, Ethereum. /r/fuckcars enthusiast. I tend to boost funny stuff.
Joined May 2019
